Cremlingen

Cremlingen

Cremlingen

Municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany

Cremlingen is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany. It borders Lehre, Königslutter, Sickte, and Braunschweig. Parts of it are adjacent to the Elm hills.

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History

Stone monument at the site of the former concentration camp

From May 8, 1944 until April 12, 1945 a concentration camp was established in the quarter Schandelah.[3] The camp was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp.

Until its deestablishment in 1974, the municipalities later merged into Cremlingen were part of the district of Braunschweig.

Traffic

The municipality has 2 train stations in the towns of Schandelah and Weddel at the railroad from Braunschweig to Magdeburg; Weddel is also served by trains towards Wolfsburg (Weddel loop).

The Federal Highway 1 crosses the municipality from east to west, and since the end of September 2006 Cremlingen has a connection point to the Federal Motorway (Bundesautobahn 39), which offers quick connections both to Wolfsburg and Braunschweig.

Division of the municipality

Cremlingen was established in 1974 by merging the former municipalities of

  • Abbenrode
  • Cremlingen
  • Destedt
  • Gardessen
  • Hemkenrode
  • Hordorf
  • Klein Schöppenstedt
  • Schandelah
  • Schulenrode
  • Weddel

Notable places

View from the Elm to the West
Historic farm building in Hemkenrode

Cremlingen hosts the Cremlingen transmitter, a major medium wave antenna used for broadcasting Deutschlandfunk.

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
  2. [2]
    "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
  3. [3]
    The camp is listed as No. 1292 Schandelah, Kreis Braunschweig, in the official German list.

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